Didier Sornette is professor of entrepreneurial risks at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, professor of finance at the Swiss Finance Institute in Geneva, and the director of the Financial Crisis Observatory at ETH Zurich.
13 Ebooks by Didier Sornette
Didier Sornette: Why Stock Markets Crash
The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as div …
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€25.99
Dmitry Chernov & Didier Sornette: Man-made Catastrophes and Risk Information Concealment
This book discusses the risks of information concealment in the context of major natural or industrial disasters – offering detailed descriptions and analyses of some 25 historical cases (Three Mile …
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€53.49
Didier Sornette & Wolfgang Kröger: New Ways and Needs for Exploiting Nuclear Energy
The history of mankind is a story of ascent to unprecedented levels of comfort, productivity and consumption, enabled by the increased mastery of the basic reserves and flows of energy. This miraculo …
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€60.98
Yannick Malevergne & Didier Sornette: Extreme Financial Risks
Portfolio analysis and optimization, together with the associated risk assessment and management, require knowledge of the likely distributions of returns at different time scales and insights into t …
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€96.29
Alexander I. Saichev & Yannick Malevergne: Theory of Zipf’s Law and Beyond
Zipf’s law is one of the few quantitative reproducible regularities found in e- nomics. It states that, for most countries, the size distributions of cities and of rms (with additional examples found …
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€96.29
Didier Sornette & Sergey Ivliev: Market Risk and Financial Markets Modeling
The current financial crisis has revealed serious flaws in models, measures and, potentially, theories, that failed to provide forward-looking expectations for upcoming losses originated from market …
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€139.09
Didier Sornette: Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences
Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences, biology and economi …
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€83.43
Didier Sornette: Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences
Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences, biology and economi …
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€92.64
Dmitry Chernov & Didier Sornette: Critical Risks of Different Economic Sectors
This book explores the major differences between the kinds of risk encountered in different sectors of industry – production (including agriculture) and services – and identifies the main features of …
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€85.59
Chris Adcock & Catherine Kyrtsou: New Facets of Economic Complexity in Modern Financial Markets
The book is motivated by the disruptions introduced by the financial crisis and the many attempts that have followed to propose new ideas and remedies. Assembling contributions by authors from a vari …
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€51.34
Chris Adcock & Catherine Kyrtsou: New Facets of Economic Complexity in Modern Financial Markets
The book is motivated by the disruptions introduced by the financial crisis and the many attempts that have followed to propose new ideas and remedies. Assembling contributions by authors from a vari …
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€51.50
Dmitry Chernov & Didier Sornette: Don’t Tell the Boss!
After a major disaster, when investigators are piecing together the story of what happened, a striking fact often emerges: before disaster struck, some people in the organization involved were aware …
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€42.79
Euan Mearns & Didier Sornette: Great 1976 Tangshan Earthquake
From 1966 to 1976, four large earthquakes shook the Bohai Bay rift basin of Northeast China. This prompted the Chinese to launch one of the world’s largest social and science experiments into earthqu …
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€120.80
